A royal commission gives New Zealand a chance to reckon with what Covid did to us | Henry Cooke
New Zealand needs a robust debate about the success of its elimination strategy in 2020, and the messy failure in late 2021
It’s hard to describe just how good New Zealand felt as summer began at the end of 2020.
Aotearoa had seemingly got through the pandemic unscathed, relying on a zero-Covid or “elimination” strategy. We had been in alert level 1 since October, meaning there were no real restrictions on daily life, with huge music festivals and parties going ahead while much of the western world was still struggling with lockdowns.
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